Composer, multi-instrumentalist, composer and master of plunder Lars Pedersen has crafted eleven great pieces of Ra-not Ra-hyper Ra, built out of materials taken from 50 years of Arkestra recordings, with the occasional addition. Accurately named a homage, these pieces are - like Oswald's Grateful Dead works - wholly sensitive to, and thoroughly locked into, the aesthetic and practices of their subject. Like Giles Martin's Beatles' Love album, there are brilliant musical layerings and inserts and apercu's, and listening is akin to hearing a new, somewhat extraordinary, Sun Ra CD. Pedersen joins Oswald and Marclay as masters of this arcane form. As a bonus, the gatefold card package is smart, mysterious and strange.L